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  • NYC Banned Books Challenge

    The Library continues to fight against the growing nationwide trends in book banning—often targeting books that deal with LGBTQ+ issues, race, religion, and history—now with a new challenge for readers across the city. Together with Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library, we call upon New Yorkers to read a selection of 10 banned or challenged titles to help make sure no perspectives, no voices, no identities are erased. Will you join us?

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  • Read Now! Malinda Lo's ‘Last Night at the Telegraph Club’

    To get New Yorkers started with the NYC Banned Books Challenge, we’re making one of the books, popular YA title Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, available with no waits via our free e-reader app SimplyE through June 26. Winner of the National Book Award and featured on NYPL’s 2021 Best Books for Teens list, this book explores issues of race and sexuality—and has been the subject of recent book banning efforts.

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More Pride Month Reads

Discover a wide selection of recommended reads in different genres from our expert librarians and library staff.

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From NYPL's Digital Collections: Essential Resources About LGBTQ Activism and History

Color photo of men and women holding signs at a demonstration. The signs read "Love is a many-gendered thing" and "New York Mattachine"
Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971
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Transgender activist, Sylvia Rivera, holding a sign reading "Gay Power". She is wearing fabulous sunglasses.
Sylvia Rivera at a Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971
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Group of people protesting outside a Police Precinct. Someone holds a sign that says "COMMUNITY DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST SYNDICATE DOMINATION AND POLICE HARASSMENT OF GAYS"
Gay Activist Alliance protest outside of 6th police precinct, Greenwich Village, New York, 1971
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Black and white photo of women wearing "GAY POWER" on their shirts. There is a sign in the background saying "GAY LIBERATION FRONT"
Gay Liberation Front women demonstrate at City Hall, New York
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A sign in the window of Stonewall Inn saying "WE HOMOSEXUAL/OUR PEOPLE/MAINTAIN PEACE/CONDUCT ON THE/VILLAGE
Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1969
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Two men, both with moustaches and glasses, standing at a desk with books saying "Gay American History" next to them
Jonathan Katz at Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop
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Black and white photo of group marching in a parage, holding a sign saying "Gays Unite Against the War: Gay Contingent"
Gay Contingent, Vietnam War protest march, New York, November 6, 1971
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Color photo of a goup of men and women holding various signs: "GAY LIBERATION FRONT WOMEN" "REPEAL SODOMY STATUTES" "DEAR RICHARD, I LOVE YOU, WILLIE"
Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971
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Marsha P. Johnson standing on a New York City sidewalk, wearing a fur coat
Marsha P. Johnson at New York University Weinstein Hall demonstration
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    • Explore More From NYPL's Landmark LGBTQ Collections

    NYPL has one of the world’s largest collections of LGBTQ history and materials regarding the social history of the AIDS crisis, many of which are available to view online. Explore our extensive collections, including academic and popular literature, rare books, little magazines, historic newspapers, at least 100,000 volumes, and over 300 archival collections—containing hundreds of thousands of letters, manuscripts, photographs, posters, and other items.

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    • Support the Library's LGBTQ Initiative

      When you donate to NYPL’s LGBTQ Initiative, you provide critical funds to help the Library build, preserve, and increase access to its LGBTQ collections not only for New Yorkers, but for people across the country and around the world.

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      Get the power of The New York Public Library, anytime, anywhere. With the NYPL app, you can access everything the Library has to offer from home or while you’re on the go.

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    • Get Started with SimplyE

      Download SimplyE, the Library's free e-reader app, which makes it easy to borrow e-books and audiobooks from a catalog of more than 300,000 titles.

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